FOLK COLLECTION 11: The Skaggs Foundation Cowboy Poetry Collection
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Cattails & Other Poems
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John C. Dofflemyer
Old Joe
Suppose it were as simple as what Dad still quotes of Joe Chinowith " I knew a man once made lots of money tending his own business."
young, Indian, iron, bureaucracy, Uncle Sam
Cattails & Other Poems
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John C. Dofflemyer
McClure's Grocery
saturdays I rode with the payroll checks on the thick seat of Dad's red '53 international, from Naranjo to the Ward Ranch then
, jail, pop bottles, shoebox, candy, staples
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John C. Dofflemyer
Cattails
Bobcat, bored with squirrel meat & Valley Quail, watched Great Bear snag Salmon in the cobbled rapids below
taste, hunt, fish, investigate, cutbank
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John C. Dofflemyer
The Seasoning
For company I ride evening out the High Sierra Trail, the 30-30 worn in scabbard, to thta bluffy stretch not chiseled
rifle, memory, agony, death, forefeet
Cattails & Other Poems
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John C. Dofflemyer
Coloring The Wind
I never thought to draw green lollipop trees nor could I finesse my "m's" to glide out of cottony clouds & envied how your crayons never strayed
James W. Doctor, landscapes, honest, gentle, hope, curlicues
Cattails & Other Poems
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John C. Dofflemyer
The Creek
The coming & going of the creek with Woodducks, the feathered chatter, the mini-flood of floating deadfall,
watergaps, bleed, hurt, trade, hide, pocketbook, pissed-off
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John C. Dofflemyer
Fishing
I visit the people-side of Lake Kaweah as summer evening shimmers on blinding ribbons to pink Sierra teeth & find Happy Jack
ski boat, beer, power, focus, pole
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John C. Dofflemyer
Decoys In Fog
Waiting for Widgeon & Woodducks, the willow's drip hangs miserably cold from the branch shedding yellow leaves
fog, God, feathered, pray, bad boys
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John C. Dofflemyer
In Rust We Trust
Unwrapping a Great Blue Heron from a trout line of twenty #4 Eagle Claws took two men & a boy to wrestle still to snip
gullet, hope, Iron, oxidize, effort
Cattails & Other Poems
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John C. Dofflemyer
Coyote Logic
The frontier rhyme came at a time of space & wild connections. & who'd suppose these Wrangled clothes would opt for new directions.
profit, bar, beer, song, die, lie
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John C. Dofflemyer
Docs No Sox
Head pitched loose he picks his way uphill through shale & granite obstacles you see the crooked line constantly redrawn find your eyes
slip, discount, vision, dance, ropes, tune, trust
Cattails & Other Poems
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John C. Dofflemyer
The Ledger Sheet
The dollar multiplies by the pound then by the head in my mind to stand against the interest & principal, the cost of feed on California
ranch, rockpile, butterfly, deer, hillsides, corral
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John C. Dofflemyer
Two Hawks
The Cooper's Hawk squints down his hooked beak to the drought-slicked ground focusing, fixed on new dirt that begins to move.
shelter, sycamore, cobbles, limbs, abandoned maze, tunnels
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Muses Of The Ranges
Somewhere roughshod we ride in numbers small to cling to hrses mane and slide aboard. Our city for life, the distant cattle call, we come to hear the last poetic word.
exercise, sleep, survive, dream, spirit, Elko
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John C. Dofflemyer
Bringing Home A Bull Riding Rodeo Cowgirl Night Shirt For Teresa From The Reno Airport
During my double Bloody Mary layover sucked down with cigarettes sequestered to an inch-thick plastic fishbowl cubicle
Trailhead, Trading Post, misdress, token, appetites
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John C. Dofflemyer
Exercise In Excess
I squeeze the last drop from each lemon, chew the rind & measure love to any intensity, even to the surety of solitary silence.
clarity, eagles, tears, cloud, desire, power, canyon
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John C. Dofflemyer
A Brand Of Sure Salvation
Trimming the fat bloodlessly for the cerebral surgery which changes 'ass to grass" is a lost cowboy art without the celestial sign.
neighbors, twine, ride, invincible, survive, offspring, Blake Allmendinger
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John C. Dofflemyer
Sierra Lake Girl
My sense of the river spills over granite smoothed to narrows beneath a Sierra lake, some generic snow-shored scoop hidden
Keith Wilson, isolates, reasonable, shield, strange, sun
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John C. Dofflemyer
Muzzle Flash
We may have dimmed andy's stargaze with consumptive electricity, may have eben dulled their power with dollar-bought genius
20th Century, love, insane, brain, burden, reflection
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Somethin' Thet You Said
And I've been chasin' rainbows forty years, the kind thet's wet an' never disappears; Not sure who put these notions in my head?
nightmares, dreams, persevere, rainbow, mom, dad
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Rusty
Down the way gone reverently 'round the way ahead patiently dad's red horse and yesterday lie still at the endge of the road
springs, field, calves
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Poem #3
A coldness starker than this cold night grasps my essence everything to make me bolt away from civilized hurt and cultivated
knowledge, laugh, wild, Indian, bluecoat army
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Alder Creek
Running between two aging alders and beneath a fallen fir a silvery stream of changing waters makes a path obscure.
stones, mud, winter, silent, river
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
A Men's Ry
Mem'ry holds where the vision fails boxcars full of heads and tails in colors cast from black to white through weathered boards
leak, wrinkles, nag, rainbow, strong, asphalt
Muses Of The Ranges
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John C. Dofflemyer
Twenty Years
Twenty years between one war and the next I am alive neither man nor boy but both. A man's brow perhaps receding hair and
child, older, growing, singing, heart, oak